Discovered 1998 Sept. 14 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.

Michelle Andrea Nguyen-McCarty (b. 1988) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her medicine and health project. She attends the Academy of the Holy Names, Albany, New York, U.S.A.

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